After a period of inactivity, he suddenly decided to leave his gruesome charge for a few moments and go visit the scene of the wreck, just for something to do.
Did it mean that those gruesome scavengers of the air were waiting for that moment to arrive?
Delving into the earth, uncovering rotten corpses, and searching for proper marks of identity is as gruesome and as horrible a job as could be imagined and I must confess my nerve was a bit shattered at the close of the second day.
Yet not all the work of the Division men of the Red Cross was gruesome and horrible.
He attempted to remove the gruesome token, but he found to his horror that it seemed to have grown to his finger.
Here he was put to torture by the authorities, who suspected him of robbery, and at length he confessed that he had found a treasure, while to his wife he confided the gruesome details, all of which were overheard by his jailers.
That the Thirty YearsÂ’ War did not fail to linger in the folk-memory is evidenced by the following gruesome legend of Oppenheim: The Battle of Skeletons The smoke and terror of the great struggle had surged over Oppenheim.
Those three horrid days in the workshop at Ithaca flooded his memory with all the gruesome details he had tried for so many months to forget.
At least half of it was head, black and awful, withgruesome green features.
Then she remembered a gruesome legend that hung about the dam and the foaming pool in the shadow of the old mill far below, and dropped her paddle in an agony of fear.
The life had been ebbing when, hearing our signals, he had striven with his last breath to summon us that he might not die alone, and, indeed, his face looked as one who had died in awful fear with some gruesome sight before his eyes.
How long that slumber lasted he knew not, but he dreamt a strange and gruesome dream.
Some women stole up and began whispering gruesome details to her.
Although the listeners could not mike out the words, the song had a gruesome sound that made one's flesh want to creep.
He was very civil and sympathetic, this young medico, but he was also rather too obviously impressed by his own importance and this gruesome occasion.
It was a gruesome journey, never to be forgotten, and made more bearable by several little acts of kindness on the part of her fellow-travellers, as such journeys are apt to be.
Dora had no sense of fear as she was convinced that Mary had been dreaming some wild thing, and she didn't much wonder, after thegruesome story they had heard the night before.
It's a mighty gruesome story, the rest o' it, Jerry lad.
Whatever it had been he was disappointed, and he turned to me again, frowning perplexedly, and tugging at the lobe of his left ear, an old trick which reminded me of gruesome things we had lived through in the past.
The Inspector examined the gruesome relic with obvious curiosity, turning it over with the tip of his little finger and manifesting considerable repugnance in touching it at all.
It is a gruesome and dowie den, but well worth a visit.
Its existence is strikingly precarious, for the whole region is in a state of perpetual throb from earthquakes, and the sights and sounds are gruesome and awful both by day and night.
The gruesome skulls and crossbones, carved over its gateway, are a dismal reminder of the horrors of that time.
The English people from the very beginning had felt deeply disgusted when their newspapers told them the gruesome details of the Terror.
The Deemster crept back on tiptoe, and a gruesome feeling took hold of him.
A gruesome sense of the ludicrous had taken hold of them.
At that Hommy's rugged face broadened to a look of gruesome sorrow, and he renewed his exertions with the shovel.
When they stepped into the bedroom Thorkell drew the midwife aside to a table on which a large candle stood in a tall brass candlestick, with gruesome gargoyles carved on the base and upper flange.
Still, anything was better than to leave him under this gruesome obsession!
Gazing at the boy's tortured face, Felix grasped the gruesome fact that this idea amounted to obsession.
Now, once more, would begin the gruesome process of deception--flinching of soul, and brazening of visage.
And slowly there formed within her a gruesome little plan to test him.
But he drew a certain gruesome comfort from the conclusion slowly forced on him, that Summerhay's tragic death had cut short a situation which might have had an even more tragic issue.
The sensations of the afternoon had been full and poignant, and this gruesome discovery coming on the top of them had really made her head ache.
We were well on our road before she came to her senses, and there were moments when I almost wished she might remain dormant until we had passed beyond the gruesome plain that stretches between Barcy and Vareddes--now a historic battlefield.
And so you came up to get away from the rather gruesome atmosphere down there?
I didn't expect to get on such a gruesome subject when we started out.
It was a gruesome sight; the form seemed oddly shrunken and twisted, one leg hung over the edge of the rock, the face was towards them, eyes and mouth wide open.
They were frightened, plainly terrified, by this gloomy cave, and especially by the gruesomesounds that came from the "deep place.
Madame Walfard the basket-maker told me some gruesome tales about Stenay, and what happened there, but this is not a book of atrocities.
Every man, woman and child in the town ought to have died of diphtheria, typhoid, septic poisoning, of a dozen gruesome diseases long ago.
Now the moon stood high above the tree tops, and there was the caldron in the middle and round about sat the trolls and witches;--such gruesome company I'm sure you were never in.
Early next morning the North Wind woke her, and puffed himself up, and blew himself out, and made himself so stout and big, it was gruesome to look at him.
